David Lorimer

David Lorimer

David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA is a writer, lecturer, and editor who is Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network. He is also President of Wrekin Trust and Chief Consultant of Character Education Scotland.  He is also a former President of the Swedenborg Society and Vice-President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (UK). Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, most recently The Protein Crunch (with Jason Drew) and A New Renaissance (edited with Oliver Robinson). He has a long-standing interest in the perennial wisdom and has translated and edited books about the Bulgarian sage Peter Deunov. His book Prophet for our Times was re-issued in September 2015 with a foreword by Dr. Wayne Dyer.

He is a founding member of the International Futures Forum and was editor of its digest, Omnipedia – Thinking for Tomorrow. He was also a Trustee of the St Andrews Prize and a Churchill Fellow. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales – Radical Prince – has been translated into Dutch, Spanish and French. He is the originator of the Inspire-Aspire Values Poster Programmes, which this year involved over 25,000 young people. See www.inspire-aspire.org.uk  and www.character-scotland.org.uk

Books in Brief

Journal Article

Reviews of books spanning topics within science, culture, economics, spirituality, and more.


The Galileo Project

Journal Article

The world today is dominated by science and by its underlying assumptions, which are seldom articulated even though they generate not only a methodology but also a worldview or philosophy.